BILL NUMBER: SB 577	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JUNE 13, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   JANUARY 19, 2000
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 6, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senators Peace and Rainey

                        FEBRUARY 23, 1999

   An act to add Section 13603 to the Penal Code, relating to
corrections.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 577, as amended, Peace.  Corrections:  cadet training.
   Existing law requires the Department of Corrections to use the
training academy at Galt and the Department of the Youth Authority to
use the training academy at Stockton.
   Existing law also requires each new cadet who attends an academy
after July 1, 2000, to complete a specified course of training before
he or she may be assigned to a post or job as a peace officer.
   This bill, in addition, would require the Department of
Corrections and the Department of the Youth Authority to provide
 an unspecified number of   16  weeks of
training to each correctional peace officer cadet, and to each newly
appointed first line  and second line supervisor, to
the extent that funding is appropriated for this training.  The
training would be required to be completed by the cadet prior to his
or her assignment to a post or position as a correctional peace
officer.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 13603 is added to the Penal Code, to read:
   13603.  (a) The Department of Corrections and the Department of
the Youth Authority shall provide  ____   16
 weeks of training to each correctional peace officer cadet, to
the extent that funding is appropriated for the purpose of this
section.  This training shall be completed by the cadet prior to his
or her assignment to a post or position as a correctional peace
officer.
   (b) The Department of Corrections and the Department of  the
 Youth Authority shall provide  ____   two
 weeks of training to each newly appointed first line 
and second line  supervisor to the extent that funding is
appropriated for the purposes of this section.